The Frame

Crossroads soup give away pump up!!

2009-08-19T02:44:00.000-07:00

We had an awesome 2 days of giving away soup, French dinner rolls, Crossroads fliers, and sharing some decent conversations with Hobart.

Focus Baptism

2009-08-10T23:57:00.000-07:00

Last week at Focus we witnessed the Baptism of Jerry from China, which was absolutely fantastic. The actual baptism wasn't quite as smooth as David had intended, hence the video.

Choux!

2009-07-29T00:44:00.000-07:00

This is the pastry I am currently thrilled about. You can make heaps of awesome things with choux!!

TBT prayer pump up!

2009-07-16T05:17:00.000-07:00

I really enjoy TBT prayer meeting. It's real encouraging and cold but worth the battle. Last night we battled down at Battery point. It's slowly growing with some new people coming most weeks.

--> Sausage Roll

2009-07-15T23:34:00.000-07:00

I took on the mighty sausage roll today, if you want some you'll have to come to TBT next Tuesday.

Going to MYC

2009-06-28T05:30:00.000-07:00

->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> gone

Cherry Puff

2009-06-25T02:19:00.000-07:00

I was experimenting with puff pastry the other day

MYC !!

2009-06-17T02:57:00.000-07:00

In all my business, God willing I will be going to MYC this year for the very first time. Pascal was really good about giving me the time off which was really awesome considering I have only been there a bit over a month. I am really pumped for this conference.

been busy

2009-06-06T18:45:00.000-07:00

I haven't posted for ages. I have been real busy working full time and I have something on almost every night of the week. My posts will be less regular sadly.

I bought a car

2009-05-23T18:12:00.000-07:00

I just added to the French array of cars our family now has. Between us we now own Renault, Peugeot and Citroen cars. Sorry Jonny :P

Black Forest pumpage

2009-05-18T22:07:00.000-07:00

Thanks heaps Pascal :D

Pascal gave me 2 of these sweet babies

TBT being nice

2009-05-16T19:12:00.001-07:00

A few of us at TBT are throwing around ideas to do something nice for Hobart. Andrew D had the idea of giving away free soup and good coffee in the mall at lunch time. Jess P also had a good idea of doing a free car wash for Hobart. The idea is simply to show kindness to our city in some way. Anyone got any ideas?

Pascal

2009-05-11T23:22:00.000-07:00

I have battled for 2 days now, it's awesome but hard. This morning I started at 5 so it was a 410 rise for me :( Pascal absolutely pumps out the products so there is a lot going on in the kitchen mostly. So far I have kind of done a bit of everything so I'm getting used to the environment.

Mother ship on mothers day

2009-05-11T22:41:00.000-07:00

I returned to my former church on Sunday for a visit with my parents. Kingston Reformed Church is a big mother church (with a horrendously bad website) to 3 other smaller church plants in the area. I still have a fair few friends from Kingston so it was good to catch up for a coffee afterward. Mikey's brother preached on 1 Joshua, it was awesome. Reminding us that Joshua and Moses were kick butt prophets, but we now have Jesus who obviously trances them. Dave Lynch is certainly worth a listen.

TBT mens prayer and cigars

2009-05-07T07:27:00.001-07:00

This evening 6 of us gathered at the Mount Nelson Signal Station lookout for prayer. We smoked Captain Black cigars and prayed for about 45 min in the freezing conditions. It was totally awesome.

Block Cinema Flier

2009-05-06T20:08:00.000-07:00

TBT has to hand out 5000 of these in the next couple of weeks. What a cool flier it is.

Pascal totally inspired me

2009-05-06T19:52:00.001-07:00

Faithful

2009-05-06T18:50:00.001-07:00

I've been thinking about this lately. How important it is to be faithful in serving Gods good purposes and will. There are so many things that can distract you from doing this, it's kind of dismal. How lame is it when you go dry in serving God when things get hard. I hate it when I start feeling unmotivated and bored in doing God's will, this feeling is really dead to have. We want to be faithful servants to a faithful master.

Usually Matt 6:33 pumps me up. "But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Butter

2009-05-04T23:34:00.000-07:00

I love butter.

Pascal :D

2009-05-04T08:01:00.001-07:00

Well I did it, I took Jean Pascal on and he gave me a job. I thank God for everyone who prayed and cared so much about my job hunt. I start next Monday at 6am. He is the most french looking guy I have ever seen.

Zum

2009-05-02T20:06:00.001-07:00

The trial went real well; they said I would probably get the job. Now I have to battle Pascal tomorrow.

The Birth of Block Cinema

2009-05-02T19:29:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday TBT hosted the first public Block Cinema:

Unfortunately the land lord double booked our event with a life drawing class, in which I accidentally barged in on. I was suddenly exposed to a bunch of old people drawing and a naked woman lying on a table. It was rather shocking.

Thankfully the land lord managed to sort out the confusion and we still ran Block Cinema from about 8pm onwards.

We had a handful of new guests, which was awesome.

We had plenty of unhealthy movie snacks and soft drink.

The movie Raging Bull was very cool.

It was freezing outside but TBT hall was warm as.

Cabernet Leather briefed us about Raging Bull

Jean Pascal!

2009-05-01T07:56:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was amazing; I actually had two interview offers in less than 2 hours. Jean Pascal also responded to my resume which I only gave them about 6 hours earlier. I am going for a trial at Zum tonight, and a trial at Jean's on Monday. God seems to be answering prayer wildly. Thanks for your prayers.

Zum :)

2009-04-30T00:37:00.000-07:00

Zum just rang me and arranged an interview for Friday. Thank you so much for those who have prayed for me in finding a job, maybe this will be Gods answer. God is truly good, and cares about every aspect of our lives. What a beautiful sustainer of life.

The Wall

2009-04-28T20:22:00.001-07:00

I Recently bought this classic, The Wall wkd.

Impersonating??

2009-04-27T06:47:00.000-07:00

This is something that a mate of mine raised with me. Is it actually wrong to impersonate people?
Most of the time not in their face of course, but I do it for fun. But maybe it's something I have to actually stop all together. Would you consider this slander? A lot of people find impersonating funny and so do I. But I don't want to face God one day and hear him say "why on earth did you do that'"

Focus Pumpage

2009-04-24T23:38:00.000-07:00

Last night we had the awesome experience of witnessing two baptisms at FOCUS (Fellowship of Overseas Christian University Students) We had David Jones come in to do the baptisms. It is so cool to see people at FOCUS becoming Christians, and seeing God pumping this ministry along.
It was a really great night for Focus and of course the two new Christians :) Jessica is from South Korea and Marshall from China.

Intro

David Jones explaining baptism

Marshall and Jessica

Music Brezel

2009-04-23T00:21:00.000-07:00

Tonight will be our last music practice for the current Cross Roads music team. So I thought why not some Brezels for their hard work. Thanks Nick for the last 2 months of music, I have really enjoyed playing with you guys.

Open church sharing

2009-04-22T08:27:00.000-07:00

I know some church's have this as part of their meeting. I actually quite like the idea of open sharing with the whole church, it's encouraging. Hearing peoples struggles and successes how God is working in their life. Though this may only work well in smaller churches.

Melbourne

2009-04-22T08:08:00.001-07:00

It's also completely the end of Melbourne as well. I decided that going there probably would have been disastrous. There are too many good things here to just leave. I recently emailed the dude and disqualified myself. How could I possibly give up on TBT.

Croissant

2009-04-21T17:45:00.000-07:00

My Aunty came for morning tea this morning, so I thought why not croissants.

TBT has an awesome banner

2009-04-21T06:04:00.000-07:00

I don't know exactly where Mikey got this from but it's extremely cool.

The light radiating through!

Some of the tbt crew

Dismal

2009-04-20T03:08:00.001-07:00

Well I didn't get the job :( :(

Wrest Point feed back

2009-04-19T18:04:00.000-07:00

I had the interview on Friday:

The Good

I told them of my experience in cookery and strong desire to make pastry, which they enjoyed... probably.

My younger brother works as a steward at Wrest Point. So they might be inspired by his knibbe work ethic.

They seemed somewhat interested in my pastry making skills at home.

They told me to ring them back, so I could tell them if I was still pumped. Normally it's them telling you that they'll ring, which means they won't ring.

The Bad

The bad is quite bad.
I think I managed to convince them that I wasn't the right dude for the job.
I think they managed to convince me that I wasn't the right dude for the job.
They asked the most bomby questions in the world.
The executive chef was giving me bad vibes and looks.
I left the interview feeling taken down and dismal.

I rang the HR lady this morning and expressed interest and passion in the position, regardless of the bad interview vibes. Now I wait and see what happens.

Melbourne takedown

2009-04-16T00:12:00.000-07:00

Maybe God is already answering the prayer against the powers of me going to Melbourne. I was supposed to have a phone interview today, but the guy didn't ring up.

Dismal Domino's

2009-04-15T19:47:00.001-07:00

Wow! I don't know if I'll be eating Domino's for a while. I just read this shocking story on some Domino's employees.

tbt pumpage

2009-04-15T00:30:00.001-07:00

One of the real cool things about tbt(toilet block tuesday) last night that made me so pumped was:
Some guy who turned up came because of the flier he received in his letter box. This was very encouraging to see that the letter boxing we did was definitely worth it. When this guy told me he got a flier in the letter box, I was like.....ride on :P :p :P

Wrest Point

2009-04-14T07:18:00.000-07:00

Thankfully God is already answering the prayer wildly. Wrest Point rang me this evening and scheduled an interview for Friday. So all I need now is to convince them that I would be the best. This may prove difficult but thankfully God is on my side! I really don't want to go to Melbourne.

Pray

2009-04-13T19:14:00.001-07:00

Please pray that I will get the job at Wrest Point so I can stay here. I'm going to have an interview for the job in Melbourne very soon. I don't want to go to Melbourne :(

Focus weekend away

2009-04-12T06:58:00.000-07:00

I just had a weekend away with about 14 people from Focus (Fellowship of Overseas Christian University Students) which was rather awesome. We were at Clifton beach in some shacks. We studied SUS with a group of international students and ate mountains of Korean food which was outrageously nice. Some of the students responded really well to SUS which was very exciting. We watched 'The Passion of the Christ' on Saturday night which is a terribly gruesome watch. But good to remember Jesus wounds for our sakes. I put some photos on the Facebook group Focus

How to hand out fliers well

2009-04-08T06:52:00.000-07:00

Nick and I were handing out fliers for Cross Roads good Friday service on mortality. We were doing the top end of the mall in Hobart. Not to criticize brother Nicks style of handing out, but somehow I did manage to get rid of more, hence the post title.

Wear Krispy Kreme apparel
Make sure you have your Jesus Mojo
Greet everyone with the same line

Flier takedown :P :p :P

Job --> Melbourne

2009-04-07T06:32:00.000-07:00

As some of you may know, most of you probably don't. I have been looking for a new job of late applying for positions as a Pastry chef. Very recently I applied for a position in Melbourne from which tonight I have just heard back from. The job recruiter has shown some interest in my application. So who knows maybe Ill end up in Melbourne, I hope not. I also applied for a job at Wrest Point with Federal group which I'd rather have. See where God puts me?

Monergism

2009-04-06T01:20:00.000-07:00

If you haven't head of this site you should check it out. Monergism is a very cool site. It covers a huge range of christian issues, essays, interviews, reviews, theological insights and a massive range of free Mp3's. There is also a lot of Tim Keller Mp3's on there, which apparently are hard to get as free downloads normally.

Stimulus 900 bucks

2009-04-06T00:57:00.000-07:00

Apparently the stimulus money is on the way, and we may receive it sometime this week. I probably wouldn't have voted to do this but I wont complain.

What will you spend it on??

Johnny Cash --> GOD

2009-04-06T00:13:00.000-07:00

I just got the Johnny Cash album 'GOD' this album is absolutely gold. If you haven't heard it you should. If your a christian and you like Johnny Cash then you will particularly love this album :D thanks to JB.

Focus again

2009-04-03T23:59:00.000-07:00

Last night we had another awesome night at focus, with a really good turn out. We also had the very cool privilege of having a big group of dudes down from SMBC in Sydney. They helped with the bible studies and chatted to the international students. I think God is really using this ministry at Focus this year. It's all very exciting seeing people pumped to know and understand God and Jesus.

Change

2009-04-03T23:01:00.001-07:00

I have made some changes to my blog, thanks to AG for his great assistance :)

Mountain Boys

2009-04-02T04:14:00.000-07:00

One of the other things we did on the Ross MTS trip was taking some cheeky photos. My good mate Cabernet Leather some time ago created an awesome Facebook group called 'Mountain Boys' the idea behind the group was to display pictures of boys in some sort of modeled fashion. It's called Mountain Boys but alot of the actual pictures are shot at other naughty locations rather than mountains. We had the crazy idea of making a silly calendar with the pics but we sadly decided against it. Come on over to Facebook and check out the action!

Creator of the group Cabernet Leather

MTS Shopfront

2009-04-02T02:47:00.000-07:00

Today I went to Ross in the midlands of Tasmania for the MTS (Ministry Training Strategy) Shopfront. It was a great day with a very healthy amount of people attending. Basically it was a day to encourage each other, talk about MTS plans, pray together and read Gods word. We discussed MTS on a national level and a local level which was very cool. We also had the great privilege to have Ben Pfahlert with us who is the national coordinator for MTS. We shared lunch together and had a good time for Q & A with Ben which was rather insightful. It was also an extremely cool venue, behind the Ross bakery in some funky stable like conference hall.

There are a couple more photos on the Ministry Training Strategy Facebook group.

Danish Pastry

2009-03-31T06:08:00.000-07:00

This is what I have been up to lately, practicing for a career in Pastry :D

Raspberry Custard Danish

Men take that!!

2009-03-30T18:51:00.001-07:00

This talk that Driscoll did on the role of Men as loving husbands was crazy!! I was completely blown out of my skin, I have never heard such a blasting at men until this talk.

The Unchurched Next Door

2009-03-30T16:43:00.000-07:00

I've just finished reading this book and it was very cool. One thing I really picked up on was a point the author (Thom S, Rainer) made about busyness. He mentions that reaching the unchurched next door should be a high biblical priority. He warns us as Christians to remember in our busyness of serving. We can become so busy and distracted that we can forget the urgency of reaching the lost. Maybe this is one of Satan's best strategies to lapse this very urgent work.

Focus Prayer Meeting

2009-03-25T20:21:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday we had our first Focus prayer meeting for this year, it was brilliant. About 11 of us got together in Luke's house and spent 1 and a half hours praying for Focus and related topics. We shared sweet food and I had a Luke espresso that me kept awake half the night :) It reminded me again to take all advantage of our super power God with the act of prayer. Looking forward to the next one! I also got to hear the fantastic news that one of the girls who has been coming to Focus for sometime has decided to become a christian :D :D praise God!!

4 quick reasons to pray

2009-03-08T19:24:00.000-07:00

A servant should talk to his master
The master seriously considers his servants requests
The servant grows to love his master more
The servant is actually talking to the creator of everything possible

Cross Roads Forum?

2009-03-02T18:52:00.000-08:00

I was thinking about the idea of possibly adding a forum to the Cross Roads website? I reckon it would be cool, for sharing and encouragement.

2 am Brain music

2009-02-10T19:30:00.000-08:00

I've discovered that listening to music from about 12 am until about 2 am is a really good way to think about stuff. Get your best music or the music you enjoy the most and an Ipod. Just listen and think about Jesus, hopefully your brain will start churning ideas wildly :D I usually go with some Dream Theater, Pink Floyd , Metallica and maybe something else like Neal Morse or Office of Strategic Influence. Try it?

Home

2009-02-05T00:51:00.000-08:00

So I am back from Japan and Korea now. I had such a good time there seeing and experiencing the culture of these countries. I ate raw octopus and drunk Saki rice wine, I got lost in Yokohama city and Japan was way to expensive!! but all a lot of fun :D

The Korean cliffs

Going Away

2008-12-21T14:58:00.000-08:00

Hi there peoples, as of Christmas day I will be going overseas for a little while so my blog will be somewhat dry. I may do a post on the trip somewhere.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year :P:p:P:p:P

Does Mr Meaty have much of a 2nd Chance?

2008-12-09T19:02:00.000-08:00

If Mr Meaty pursues the girl in question and gets the 'just friends' response, but then continues to spend some time with her and keep the friendship going to an extent. At this point Mrs Meaty has basically already said NO to Mr Meaty. But what are the chances of Mrs Meaty changing her mind??

How do girls think about this? Once they've decided in their mind is that usually final or is there much room for change. If so what would Mr Meaty do to win her back?
Would Mr Meaty start pursing her again and just ask? or would he lay low and let Mrs Meaty realize her wasted opportunity.

Crazy Indian Bricklayer!!

2008-12-01T22:37:00.000-08:00

check this out!! If we thought work was hard....well

Conscience Vs Holy Spirit

2008-11-30T16:43:00.000-08:00

How does the conscience work with the Holy Spirit? I think everyone is born with a conscience, something that God gave us to give us a sense of right and wrong. But when someone becomes a Christian I wonder wether it's now just the Holy Spirit speaking and convicting us or some sort of interlaced conjunction between the Holy Spirit and our conscience. Or can you say that a Christians conscience has also had a mini conversion. The conscience essentially just becoming the Holy Spirit for us.

Girl Friends??

2008-11-19T20:42:00.001-08:00

I wish I understood why girls like hanging out with guys, spending time with them and so forth. Then usually, not always the guy seems to start liking the girl and might want to pursue her. Now the girl and guy might continue hanging out and spending time together and both putting an equal amount of effort and time into the relationship. There might become a point when the guy decides to lay down some turf and tell her how he feels, but to his surprise he gets the "sorry I only love being your friend" Basically the guy totally got the wrong idea about her, he was pretty certain and fairly convinced that she liked him. I just don't seem to understand how a girl could put time and effort into a relationship with some dude she really has no intention of dating. How's the guy ever really supposed to know wether she is pumped for him. She is either pumped for dating or she's pumped to be just friends, but displaying similar actions in both situations. I can assure you I wasn't writing this post all fired up and grumpy, I just seek some answers.

How many times?

2008-11-16T22:10:00.000-08:00

How many times would you sign into Facebook everyday? 1? 2? 400? times. My blog went dry for a few days sorry, our internet went rotten the whole weekend so I couldn't write squat. Also does anyone have tips on how to recover the Australian dollar from its slump? This might prove difficult though. O and don't get Clearcom internet it clearly doesn't work.

The Mercury

2008-11-11T21:22:00.000-08:00

Boy Pats Kitten

Ten year old Jason Horseshoe of Moonah has been patting his lovely new kitten koko. Jason says that patting a kitten is a very special treat. "I just love to pat my kitten koko and show him real human affection," said Jason. Koko is a fluff mountain breed, "I want to give love back to the cat community in a non threatening way," he said. Jason has been planning patting sessions with other cat lovers from around Hobart and even interstate. At this stage of life koko's diet consists of milk and honey. The fluff mountain breed is mainly found in Northern Australia but Jason was lucky enough to purchase one online. "I used to buy computer games online but now I am addicted to cats," he said. The Royal Hobart Cat Show opens this weekend with over 250 species of cats on display. Jason will be entering his cat koko in the fluff section.

Capital punishment

2008-11-11T05:08:00.000-08:00

The recent execution of the master minds behind the Bali bombings brings this law of capital punishment into the spot light once again. I'm always a bit uncertain about what to think about this law. Capital punishment have your say?

I just read this!

2008-11-09T23:24:00.000-08:00

How's this for storing up your treasures on earth. I just read that some 90 year old woman in Chicago had been living in her house with her three dead siblings. One of which that had apparently died in the early 1980's. The other two had died more recently. I know this story is a little more on the disturbing side, but it's just such a strange wired thing to do.

1 in 5000 billion million octillion

2008-11-09T03:31:00.000-08:00

The amount of information an individual can learn, acquire, study and know, is just so much. There are just billions and billions of things and facts and pieces of information that one could possibly obtain in a life time. Funny thing is, knowing Christ is just one piece of information in the whole swam. But the only piece that is crucial to know. Only one piece! That is truly good information.

Philippians 3:7-8 revisited

2008-11-08T03:47:00.000-08:00

Just going back over the words from Phil 3 where Paul mentions that he counts everything a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ. This is such a challenge, but how can we actually practically live like this, we should consider everything a loss because we know Jesus. It would be so cool to take this passage to the max! But we do need to realise that we can't just abandon all commitments and responsibilities and just go of on some sort of jaunt. I suppose it's some nice balance between living completely for Gods purpose and mission but still living with a responsible attitude to all life's battles.

Interesting ?

Faithful Servants

2008-11-03T22:42:00.000-08:00

I was thinking about the parable in Matt 25:21 where it's talking about the master who is rewarding his slaves for their fruit they produced. The slaves were given talents and their master went on his way. Later he returned to settle the accounts with the slaves. One of the slaves had been given 5 talents and he had doubled the amount to 10 talents. The master responds with the words 'Well done, good and faithful slave. This parable illustrates the relationship between us and Christ, the slave was faithful to his master so are we to be faithful to Christ. I can't believe that God could actually say these words to us 'Well done, good and faithful slave' It boggles me to think that the creator of the whole universe would regard us as viable servants. Basically it's God congratulating you for your efforts in being faithful to him and his work. This is crazy, God actually congratulating us! mere humans who caused God grief in the first place. Just goes to show how close our relationship to God can now be, thanks be to Christ. Doesn't this just inspire you to be that good and faithful servant!

Matt 25:21 was taken from the NASB translation

My turn - Our turn

2008-11-02T01:12:00.000-07:00

I was just thinking about purpose and the reason why God created me and others. It's amazing to think that in all of history the billions and billions of people that God has created for his glory. Now it's my turn, our turn to bring God glory, what a privilege. Our little time here on earth is just so insignificant and feeble in the grand scheme of history, but that being said shouldn't this just be an inspiration a drive and a hope to forsake everything for the sake of Christ. I was reading Philippians and the bit that caught me out tenfold was 3:7-8, where Paul mentions that he counts everything a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ. If only my simple mind could understand these simple words :[ this was challenging stuff, praise God!

-> Mass prayer

2008-10-31T04:48:00.001-07:00

It would be cool to have more of these I reckon. I know there was one about 2 weeks ago, where several churches got together and prayed for the mission of vision 100. This is so worth while and just such a positive step in the right direction towards seeing our city changed. Planting 100 new churches seems so daunting at times, but what better way to get people pumped again than to have a mass prayer meeting! God wants to see where serious about this vision, so I'd say these prayer days are joy to Gods ears. Really looking forward to the next one!

What would Mr Meaty do? #2

2008-10-30T17:07:00.000-07:00

Mr Meaty is interested in a girl, and may have plans to pursue her. He knows that being single is a very good thing for the advancement and work of the gospel, but he thinks that having a wife may also be an encouragement to him and his mission.

1) Mr Meaty would considered the girl carefully and deliberate over the idea for months on end
2) Mr Meaty would be efficient about it all, make a move towards her and make his intentions clear
3) Mr Meaty would very carefully consider the benefits of being single and compare the two
4) Mr Meaty would desire a relationship to fully glorify God and further the kingdom
5) Mr Meaty would decide to remain single for the meanwhile and serve God in singleness

What should Mr Meaty do in this situation?

Note: these circumstances could be applicable for any Mr Meaty

What would Mr Meaty do? #1

2008-10-29T23:58:00.001-07:00

Mr Meaty is at home with not much to do, he has a couple of options of what he could be doing in the next couple of hours.

1) Mr Meaty could watch tv
2) Mr Meaty could read christian blogs
3) Mr Meaty could rot on facebook for some hours
4) Mr Meaty could listen to Mark Driscoll
5) Mr Meaty could read 1 Timothy

What should Mr Meaty do in this situation?

Crazy idea?

2008-10-27T22:32:00.000-07:00

Recently I have received a lot of those "Thanks for attending our wedding cards" you know the ones with a picture of the married couple and a short note. Well I was thinking it could be a good laugh to send them back a thank you card for being invited to their wedding. You could just have a corny photo of yourself with your dog, and a short thank you note to let them know how special you felt being invited. In theory it sounds funny to do, I don't know if I would actually do it though. But It's just so tempting :]

Money Money Money

2008-10-23T23:08:00.000-07:00

Recently I received an email from eBay letting me know that I could list 2 items on eBay for free.
The content of the email consisted of them telling me that most people on average have about eighteen hundred dollars worth of goods that they don't use or even know about sitting at home. There plea was for me to find these goods and list them straight away, so I could make some extra money for Christmas. I wasn't interested in doing this at all, so I immediately trashed it. But later I was thinking about it again for some reason, and I thought yes eBay is right I probably do have a mountain of possessions sitting at home that are somewhat valuable. It made me think wow! I do have so many possessions and just stuff that could quite easily be sold, some potential money just sitting at home rotting with dust. This email challenged me to think about my possessions and how I use them, to the point of selling stuff and using the money for Gods mission. Thanks eBay! Now I need to take a look around and see what I could sell.

New Church Plants

2008-10-22T23:49:00.000-07:00

Just some ideas I've had about out reaching to the community with a new plant. Obviously you want the community and the local area to know about the new church and so on. So we need ways to promote it, plugging it, and of course sharing the gospel with the community.

1) Letter box drops are of course a good idea, to simply let them read about it.

2) Maybe a music evening in summer with live music and food, all provided of course. I think this could be a good way of introducing people to the new church in a reasonably relaxed manner. I know this is something that the Richmond church did a few years back.

3) Maybe if you can get hold of a projector somehow, screen an outside movie in summer with popcorn and beer (indoor for winter). Probably letter box drop these events.

4) Door knock in the area and tell people about it.

5) Pray wildly for planned events.

Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
(1 Cor 15:58)

Church Planting??

2008-10-19T22:40:00.000-07:00

A couple of questions I have about church planting.

1) How do you know when you are taking a risk for church planting? Or just being foolish or unreasonable? Somewhere those two variables need to be considered.

2) How often should we be church planting? Do we just wait and see our current churches grow and increase in numbers, or should we always be actively seeking new locations and people to plant churches?

3) What are the basic things you need to plant a church? Apart from the obvious ones. People, money, venue etc.

Be cool to hear peoples thoughts on this stuff

Who is Mr Meaty?

2008-10-18T01:34:00.000-07:00

I'm going to talk a little bit about Mr Meaty. Well Mr Meaty doesn't actually exist as a person. but he can exist if you want him to. Basically Mr Meaty is a Godly man who fears, loves, serves and praises God in all things. Here I'm talking especially to single men in particular but it should be for all christian men really. 1 Cor 7:17 "Nevertheless each one should retain the place in life that the Lord assigned to him and to which God has called him. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches"

What I'm trying to get across is that as christian men we should be striving to be Mr Meaty regardless wether were single or married? So if God has given you singleness then make use of it, read, pray, learn, encourage and always be happy and content in the position God has put you in.

1 Cor 7:24 "Brothers, each man as responsible to God, should remain in the situation God called him to"

I believe Mr Meaty is

All the fruits of the spirit (Gal 5:22)
Gives thanks in all things (1 Thess 5:16,17,18)
Mr Meaty loves God wether he is single or not
Mr Meaty reads he's bible
Mr Meaty prays

Essentially Mr Meaty is joyful to be single or joyful to be married

Can you be Mr Meaty!!!! I started a group on facebook if you want to join Mr Meaty, I hope to take this group beyond facebook and meet in a real group in the future. I have to say becoming Mr Meaty is not an easy task an requires hard work and encouragement, hence starting this group :]

--> Abortion

2008-10-15T00:16:00.000-07:00

Just thought id plug this on my blog, I think is a pretty good thing to support. Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute is celebrating the 60th year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Well basically its a petition that you can sign online, that will be sent forth to the UN General Assembly that will call for a universal right to abortion. It will happen in December so there is not much time left, so if you feel strongly about this issue or just want to support the petition anyway go here

--> Dr Phil might say

2008-10-13T22:59:00.000-07:00

Dr Phil: Do have any idea or any vision about what this is doing to ya kids? Do they know about your 3rd credit card, or have you hid it from there lives.

Carol: I am not sure, they may have seen it. My kids understand me better now once we bought them the Playstation.

Dr Phil: Do you actually believe giving your children a Playstation has made them understand you better?

Carol: Tobias and I are were actually considering giving our son charlie a credit card for primary school.

Dr Phil: Good gracious me that is absurd. You cant do that! What sort of effect do you think that will have on Charlies well being and self development? I think you better listen to me otherwise i cant give you the holiday to the moon.

Tobias: Charlie is a special little kid, a special gift to Carol and I. We want to reward him for he's work. He knows how to use a credit card, when he's seen mummy and daddy using it at the grocer store

Dr Phil: I cant believe what I'm hearing hear, You are playing a fools game with ya son. Let me ask you a question Tobias and Carol, do you guys actually have a brain? I say what is going on inside your head? What do you think about your parents motives Charlie?

Charlie: Mmmm, i mean i know how to use a credit card. there pretty sweet cool.

Dr Phil: Well you gotta work this out with ya kid, this to me is a parents to son ball of confusion. You will need to work hard to create a good environment for Charlie to live and learn the lessons he needs to learn for when he grows up.

Dr Phil: How about a return trip to the moon with all expenses paid, Tobias, Carol and Charlie would you enjoy that? We hope you can sort these problems out, but in the mean time spend some quality time with each other on this ridiculous holiday.

Dr Phil: Coming up after the break we are going to speak to a Mum and Dad who have neglected there own children.

--> Man and God

2008-10-11T00:58:00.000-07:00

We can talk to the creator of the universe and act as if its nothing
We honor and fear men and ignore God
We claim to love God and hate our brothers
We live a bliss to the facts while living completely at Gods mercy
We take our possessions and wealth and forgot the giver
We are great sinners but God is a great savior
We should praise God

Sorry

2008-10-08T23:09:00.000-07:00

Sorry for not posting anything lately, Somehow my blog got listed as being a potential spam blog and my blog is currently under review. I have no idea how this happened but its kinda annoying :[
Hopefully blogger will sort the problem out real soon and my blog will be back to normal. I do have some stuff to write about so stay tuned :D

How can we respond to Gods Guidance?

2008-10-04T23:48:00.000-07:00

Now this is a topic iv been thinking a lot about lately. Seeking guidance from God is something that is pretty important in every Christians life id say. There are a few things lately that iv been sinking guidance for from God, and i suppose more to the more point seeking a somewhat obvious answer. Now from what iv been told God usually guides people in a couple of ways.

1) Through the bible
2) through people, christian friends, parents, older Christians who are wise etc.
3) And through the Holy Spirit.

Now to be honest sometimes i just can't work out what Gods will is and it leaves me puzzled and feeling rather depressed. Tho we can be certain that God does guide us, which is very encouraging even when you don't really understand how or why. But i think for me especially at the moment, I'm struggling to see exactly what Gods will is for a certain situation?? How do i respond to Gods guidance or how do i come in line with it, or to feel as tho I'm doing the right thing?? Sometimes someone will tell me this then another that, and this confuses me to who i should believe?? If these people are possibly helping me in being guided then it becomes tricky??

Humility??

2008-10-02T02:12:00.000-07:00

Something iv been thinking a lot about lately is this word Humility?? Now i find this quite a hard thing to tackle. I personally find one of the hardest lessons for a christian to learn is humility(just simply being nice and humble :] I find the idea about being humble difficult, If you think about it arrogance plays a huge part in almost every area of our lives. I mean for example; am i actually being arrogant in the fact that I'm writing this article about being humble?? Being humble is such a godly thing to chase after id say, and by Gods grace we can only strive for a life filled with more and more humility! Don't get me wrong tho, i know a heap of christian people that are very very humble, so it is possible :] thank God :] But if you think about all the areas of your life where you don't really show Godly humility, i find the list piles up rather quickly... sadly.

Big Red

2008-10-01T02:40:00.001-07:00

Basically big red is not that exciting really, On Saturdays a large group of us including myself and a few other mates play soccer down at the Uni oval. Fairly often some pretty random people turn up and play with us, and know one seems to know who they are or where there from. But don't get me wrong its good to have new people come along to create friendships amongst us. But one week some real big guy turned up and he played wearing a big red jumper, hence big red. Me and Pryderi came up with the name big red.

--> The Frame has gone up

2008-09-28T04:30:00.000-07:00

The frame of this blog has now been erected, there's not much to report yet. But i will say I have been eating almonds a lot and they're a tasty snack for reading :] I've been reading A.W Tozers book "The pursuit of God" :] Watching the AFL grand final yesterday was fun with my mates, i ate 2 hot dogs and a disgusting meat pie :[ then i had mounds of chips lollies and soft drink. We played footy at the half time break then we all felt sick :[ then we had ice cream. For dinner i had Dalh cooked by my brother which was very yummy :] and beautiful chocolate pear cheesecake cooked by my other brother :] I played soccer yesterday too, and big red was there, but ill talk about big red next time :]